Brick = Winner!

[vraiblonde]

It's no different than The Duck or Back Creek or a couple of places on the Island.

Back Creek is pretty nice - I'd say Brick is closer to the Duck in terms of atmosphere, except it's not as busy and noisy because they have a larger space.

There's a lot of money in Calvert, I'm surprised there aren't more decent restaurants.

 

[NextJen]

It's no different than The Duck or Back Creek or a couple of places on the Island.

Yes, I know there are some nice places in Calvert. I just thought it was funny that she said it. She's still young and hasn't really gone to many 'fancy' places with her boyfriend.

 

[frequentflier]

Meeting up with some friends there soon. If it is along the lines of CD Café, Back Creek Bistro or even Ruddy Duck, I cannot imagine it will disappoint!

 

[vraiblonde]

Yes, I know there are some nice places in Calvert. I just thought it was funny that she said it. She's still young and hasn't really gone to many 'fancy' places with her boyfriend.

If she sat in the dining room, I can see that she'd think so. The bar area is more casual, but still nice.

 

[NextJen]

If she sat in the dining room, I can see that she'd think so. The bar area is more casual, but still nice.

I'm excited to try it out myself. I love brussel sprouts!

 

[RoseRed]

Chicklet and I had lunch there yesterday, it was really good. She got the plain pizza and I got the mushroom with carmelized mushrooms. I'm having leftovers now while watching football.

 

[Hank]

the mushroom with carmelized mushrooms.

Mmmm. That was a good pizza!

 

[RoseRed]

Mmmm. That was a good pizza!

I'll get it again.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

Went there for the first time.

The Roast Beef sliders are amazing (though the horseradish sauce could use a bit more horseradish) and the BBQ chicken pizza was very good.

Other folks from our group didn't have anything bad to say other than the Gluten Free pizza just being "okay".

 

[vraiblonde]

Other folks from our group didn't have anything bad to say other than the Gluten Free pizza just being "okay".

Gluten free pizza is always pointless. You never realize how much the crust makes the pizza until you start dicking around with it.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

Gluten free pizza is always pointless. You never realize how much the crust makes the pizza until you start dicking around with it.

It's just not conducive to the brick oven, IMO. It could stand not cooking as long, but admittedly, I didn't have any. My wife loves pizza, and is gluten intolerant (the real kind, not the new hippy gluten-free fad).

She's had the GF pizza from Dominos a few times and likes it. The Udi frozen GF pizzas from the grocery store are pretty damn good (especially the BBQ chicken one)

 

[Bann]

Tonight I had the Wood Fired Burrata as an appetizer, which has ball of fresh mozzarella floating in the middle of their house marinara, which was served hot so all the cheese is melty in the middle and is served with toasted ciabatta wedges drizzled with olive oil. Very yummy! Even while sharing with Vrai & FF, AND even drizzling some of it over my pizza I still took home half the kettle it's served in. For my entree, I ordered the Salumi pizza and the kettle of Brussels sprouts, both of which I really liked. The Brussels are really fantastic cooked this way! Soo much food, I took home half the pizza and the Burrata along with some of the bread wedges. Thing1 can have those for lunch tomorrow!

I'll let Vrai & FF talk about their dinners - FF got the Prime Rib dinner, and Vrai the Laughing Gouda Burger with fries (which are crazy good!).

I noted that the Wood Fired Wings appetizer which Vrai ordered now comes as 8 wings for $11, which I was glad to see! On mine & Foxhound's first trip to Brick, I thought 6 wings for $11 was a little skimpy. 8 is just right, I think, and they are awesome cooked in the wood fire, IMO.

Oh, and their Watermelon Margarita is really watermelony and kicky. Nice drink! We had excellent service, and the ambiance is great there. Another nice experience.

 

[vraiblonde]

The Burrata was not what I expected - I thought it would be more like mozz sticks. Instead it's a kettle of bubbling marinara with a ball of fresh cheese melting in the middle and garlic foccacia on the side. REALLY good and, like Bann said, there's a lot of it. It's nice to see restaurants step up their appetizer game and not just have the same ol' same ol'. Ruddy Duck has great appetizers, too.

My burger was excellent, not your average restaurant burger. It had thick cut bacon on it, so you actually knew the bacon was there and could taste it. It was already juicy, and I made the mistake of putting BBQ sauce on it, which made it pretty messy. Delicious, but messy.

I'm kind of annoyed with this place because #1, everything is good so deciding what to order is difficult; and #2, they're getting in the way of me wanting to go to other restaurants. The chicken is still my favorite, but the pizza is amazing and I could easily just have appetizers and be happy. Grrr.....

 

[luvmygdaughters]

Went there for the first time Friday nite. It was delicious. I had the fish of the day, Mahi. It was perfect. My daughter had the steak and two granddaughters has cheeseburgers. I had the Oysters Brickafella for an app. They were to die for.

 

[Monello]

Try the half chicken. Great spices with a nice crispy skin.

Now I'm hungry.

 

[lucky_bee]

Finally got to go! The guy took me there for lunch Veteran's day on our way to something in B'more. The inside of that place look fantastic! Super clean and well decorated. Since we were there for lunch I was a little disappointed I couldn't order from the "Dinner" menu, but happily settled with the gouda (?) burger and he got the French dip. we split our sandwiches. Superb. My MR burger was cooked perfectly and the au jous was to die for. Awesome service too. We'd like to go back soon for some pizza! Especially since we didn't realize until our way out that they have his favorite beer on tap!

 

[NextJen]

Finally got to go! The guy took me there for lunch Veteran's day on our way to something in B'more. The inside of that place look fantastic! Super clean and well decorated. Since we were there for lunch I was a little disappointed I couldn't order from the "Dinner" menu, but happily settled with the gouda (?) burger and he got the French dip. we split our sandwiches. Superb. My MR burger was cooked perfectly and the au jous was to die for. Awesome service too. We'd like to go back soon for some pizza! Especially since we didn't realize until our way out that they have his favorite beer on tap!

My guy and I went a couple weekends ago. We got there around 3:00pm. When the waiter came by and asked if we had any questions, I said, 'Yes, is it 4 o'clock yet, because I had my heart set on the steak!' He laughed and said he'd be right back. He came back and said that we could order off of the dinner menu, the only thing we couldn't get were the red potatoes, apparently they aren't done until after 4. So, I got the steak with brussel sprouts and substituted french fries instead of the red potatoes it came with.

If you go before dinner hours and would like something off of the dinner menu, I suggest that you ask your wait person.

 

[Hank]

Tried the prime rib... Pretty good, not the best I have had, but I would order it again. Oyster Brickafellas for appetizer. Those are a regular order each visit. After dinner we had a Macallan Scotch. Forgot whether it was the 18 year or 25, regardless one shot was more than my prime rib....High Rollin'!

Service was sketchy... First time for that.

 

[vraiblonde]

After dinner we had a Macallan Scotch. Forgot whether it was the 18 year or 25, regardless one shot was more than my prime rib....High Rollin'!

Treat yo' self

 

[GURPS]

But reading some of the Yelp reviews, I'm like, "What part of 'wood fired grill' wasn't plain English??" One guy was bitching about how they need two parts of the restaurant: one that serves their "fancy" food and one that does mozz sticks and normal burger sliders.

the southpark episode reminded me of this thread .....

Bret Easton Ellis on Living in the Cult of Likability

On a recent episode of the television series “South Park,” the character Cartman and other townspeople who are enthralled with Yelp, the app that lets customers rate and review restaurants, remind maître d’s and waiters that they will be posting reviews of their meals. These “Yelpers” threaten to give the eateries only one star out of five if they don’t please them and do exactly as they say. The restaurants feel that they have no choice but to comply with the Yelpers, who take advantage of their power by asking for free dishes and making suggestions on improving the lighting. The restaurant employees tolerate all this with increasing frustration and anger — at one point Yelp reviewers are even compared to the Islamic State group — before both parties finally arrive at a truce. Yet unknown to the Yelpers, the restaurants decide to get their revenge by contaminating the Yelpers’ plates with every bodily fluid imaginable.

The point of the episode is that today everyone thinks that they’re a professional critic (“Everyone relies on my Yelp reviews!”), even if they have no idea what they’re talking about. But it’s also a bleak commentary on what has become known as the “reputation economy.” In depicting the restaurants’ getting their revenge on the Yelpers, the episode touches on the fact that services today are also rating us, which raises a question: How will we deal with the way we present ourselves online and in social media, and how do individuals brand themselves in what is a widening corporate culture?

The idea that everybody thinks they’re specialists with voices that deserve to be heard has actually made everyone’s voice less meaningful. All we’re doing is setting ourselves up to be sold to — to be branded, targeted and data-mined. But this is the logical endgame of the democratization of culture and the dreaded cult of inclusivity, which insists that all of us must exist under the same umbrella of corporate regulation — a mandate that dictates how we should express ourselves and behave.